When I leave the blogging for late in the evening, my tank is low and I don’t have much coherent to say. I also had a right busy day out in the world — lots of errands and driving around in cold fog. It was rather Dickensian, except for the freeways, cars, cell phones and [...]
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Today was the day to unpack the red and green boxes from the garage and bring Christmas inside. It was a bitterly cold day too, which helped some. I still feel cooped up and in need to a good long elliptical session, but one little corner of our world is red, green, gold and nutcrackery. [...]
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Here’s another video which is a marvel of technique and creativity… Imagine knitting 720 panels for your animation! Sure, she had a knitting machine, but it’s still a major achievement. It’s a bit far away from the kinds of images that I’m wanting to create with fiber, fabric and paint, but when you’re working on [...]
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(This entry was chosen as a “Best of Holidailies.” Thanks!) Wrapping gifts is a lost art. I learned it during one weekend of working the gift wrap desk at a major department store when I was in high school. I didn’t get paid, but my mother worked there, and one day I was hanging out [...]
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It’s cold and possibly icy here in Dallas, and I’m sleep-deprived. So tonight’s offering will be brief. A lesson in persistence. “Make a way out of ‘no way.’” Come up with a creative solution. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Even if you are a beagle. I wonder how many attempts it [...]
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Here is the first piece that opened me up to piercing canvas and adding thread/fiber elements, discovered by me a couple of weeks ago in conversation with a knitting comadre on Ravelry. I had been thinking of adhesives, but Kirsty’s innovation and provacative piece “Cursive” literally PUNCHED HOLES in my way of thinking. I love [...]
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I have a bunch of great friends. We share a lot of cool links and tidbits from the ‘net. Because they are looking at vastly different things online than I am, I get wonderful FRESH ideas from them. Here is today’s, from T: from http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11665672 I’ve been thinking lately about doing paintings that are somehow [...]
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The Holidailies start tomorrow. This is a yearly blog writing project, totally voluntary, and loads of fun. I pledge to post every day for 31 days from Dec. 5 to Jan. 6. While I plan to stick pretty close to my theme of creativity, art, and the process of opening up to it, you can [...]
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I did it! I finished the 50K word goal for November! More thoughts on this later, but for now, here’s the wonderful and cheesy message you get to read when you win NaNo 2008, which actually made me choke up a little. Through storm and sun, you traversed the noveling seas. Pitted against a merciless [...]
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While drinking my one perfect cup of coffee this morning, I watched a willow tree next to a little pond. As its branches floated gracefully up and down on the breeze in typical willowy gorgeousness, I was proud that I’d taken the willow as my namesake. Half of my namesake. What that willow taught me [...]
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